Viewership Ratings Quotes

Television is a service, but it's also a business.

In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.

But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.

I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

We did a version of 'You Bet' called 'Wanna Bet' in the U.S. a couple of years ago. It was a good little show but the network put it on over the summer on Mondays so nobody watched it.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

Network's rating dependent. A show might not stick. A lot's timing. Like, my Bradley Cooper in 'Kitchen Confidential' didn't always work. Cable supports young shows. TV Land, which you can find on Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, wanted 'Younger.' They came to me.

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

Pay-per-views and television are so fast-paced. It's very hectic.

The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.

I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.

I actually think there's a potential, a crazy potential, that network TV could become something valuable and worthwhile, just because of fear on the part of the networks.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

CBS has received a strong and positive response from the YouTube community about the quality of its programming.

On 'Baskets,' I'm not sure what the demographic is.

With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

I think TV is the only place left where you can have a midsize something.

The budget on cable television is dramatically less than network television.

Nobody cares about '60 Minutes.' Everybody cares about the Jaguars. Isn't that amazing?

I think the model of The CW Network is really built on the fan platform more than anything else. The success or longevity of a series has less to do with the number it's pulling and more to do with the social footprint... There is a lot about the fan support on a strictly business level that's really powerful for that network.